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On money, software, belief, and the fictions we maintain together

These are essays are exploratory. They may be wrong. They are offered anyway, as something through which a subject might be examined.

The ideas are the author's. Each essay begins from somewhere and tries to end somewhere further along. Whether is arrives is a matter for the reader

I On Money & Its Fictions

The Slow Confiscation

Nixon cut the gold anchor in 1971. UK house prices have since risen from 3.2× to 7.2× median wages. The mechanism is monetary expansion. The cost has been paid by those who work, not those who own.
The Deity That Clears

Money passes every structural test for religion: unverifiable shared belief, ritual reinforcement, a priestly class, inexplicable consequences for heretics. The Market is its instrument of judgment. Fiat made the theology explicit.
The Eighth Quantity

Money is a genuine dimension — irreducible, like length or mass. Commercial software treats it as a bare number. The errors that follow are arithmetically invisible and semantically catastrophic. The SI has seven base units. It needs an eighth.

II On Belief & Method

III On Software & Its Histories

IV On Thinking & Working

V On Language & Agreement

VI On Cost & Consequence

VII On Governance & Its Obligations